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Critters is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Stephen Herek released in USA on 11 april 1986 with Dee Wallace
Critters (1986)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 11 april 1986
Length 1h22
Directed by Stephen Herek
OriginUSA
Themes Space adventure films, Comedy science fiction films, Comedy horror films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Rating61%
Critters is a 1986 science fiction film comedy horror film starring Dee Wallace-Stone, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush and Scott Grimes. It was the directorial debut of Stephen Herek who co-wrote it alongside Domonic Muir (story) and Don Keith Opper (additional scenes). It is the first film in the Critters series. Although widely believed to have been inspired by the success of Joe Dante's 1984 film Gremlins, Herek has refuted this in interviews, pointing out that the script was written by Muir long before Gremlins went into production and subsequently underwent rewrites to reduce the apparent similarities between the two films.
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The film begins on a prison set on an asteroid, from which a group of 'Crites' are set to be transported to another station. When the Crites kill two guards and injure three, hijack a ship from the station, and escape, the commander of the station hires two shape-changing bounty hunters to pursue them.Actors
Dee Wallace
(Helen Brown)
M. Emmet Walsh
(Harv)
Billy "Green" Bush
(Jay Brown)
Scott Grimes
(Brad Brown)
Billy Zane
(Steve Elliot)
The Critters series
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